A week before some Indiana voters go to the polls, a federal judge in Indianapolis has declined to block the state's voter
identification law that's currently in flux following a state appellate court ruling in September.

The second annual CLE forum "Court History Symposium: Court History and History in the Making" will feature Elizabeth
Monroe, who will discuss federal territorial materials and what they reveal about the early practice of law in Indiana; Indiana
Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard; and a judicial roundtable of judges from the Southern District.

The Indiana Supreme Court has accepted a certified question from a federal judge, and will now consider a state law issue
that it hasn't before: whether a tenant is considered a co-insured under a landlord's fire insurance policy if there's
no express agreement saying otherwise.

The United States has filed a lawsuit against the city of Columbus accusing it of violating the Fair Housing Act because it
refused to grant a permit to a nonprofit group that wanted to operate a group home for men recovering from drug and alcohol
addiction.

Faced with hefty fines of more than $27,000 a day for violating the federal Clean Water Act, the city of Jeffersonville has
reached a settlement with the federal and Indiana governments, the Department of Justice, and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.

Six years after the city of Indianapolis amended its adult-business ordinances, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered
the District Court to hold an evidentiary hearing on whether the restricted hours in the new ordinance violate the businesses'
constitutional rights.

Clark County lost in its efforts to be dismissed from suits filed by two fired Clark Circuit Court employees. Chief Judge
David F. Hamilton in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, ordered the county to file answers to the complaints
no later than Sept. 6.

A southern Indiana company could be on the hook for $26 million in contaminated site cleanup costs, a consequence of a federal
judge's default ruling in June that found the business and its former attorneys had purposely withheld evidence and misled
the court.

A federal judge in Indianapolis has found that a death row inmate is competent to assist his attorneys and proceed with a
five-year-old habeas appeal that's been stayed twice because of mental health concerns.

In a ruling that could impact pending litigation involving Indiana Protection and Advocacy Services, the 7th Circuit
Court of Appeals decided the agency doesn't have standing to bring suits in federal court.

A magistrate judge has recommended that the Marion County Sheriff's motions to dismiss a complaint against him be denied.
A suit was filed following the death of an inmate who didn't receive his needed medicine

An Indianapolis law firm sanctioned for the conduct of some of its attorneys in an environmental cleanup case won't appeal
the sanction and has agreed to pick up some of the opposing counsel's legal tab as part of a settlement agreement.